Boris Johnson's memoir 'Unleashed' begs the question of when he was last on a leash
What’s different about this book is the place it could take in Boris Johnson’s efforts to define himself after Downing Street – invites the question of when exactly he was last on a leash. Certainly as Conservative Party leader and Prime Minister, he was a law unto himself. This was the quality that both delivered him electoral victory and then brought him crashing down.
The tome itself, public speaking appearances and extensive newspaper serialisation will land just after the key “beauty parade” of the remaining fourIn other words, BoJo will be “unleashed” at the most sensitive and crucial time in the Conservative Party’s efforts to relaunch and recover. Any bulls out there who are plotting to visit a china shop this autumn might as well not bother, because they’re due to be severely upstaged.
So yes, it’ll worry and then annoy his party. Yes, it’ll fling some dirt and betray some confidences. Yes, it’ll titillate and offend, and probably push the boundaries of the official codes governing such accounts. And no, it won’t change what you thought of the author beforehand. The most successful politicians often struggle to find a place; think of Margaret Thatcher’s twilight as a warrior without a battle to fight, or Tony Blair’s reinvention as a sun-tanned squillionaire consultant. Even they had to choose some kind of life after politics, however unsatisfactory it might have felt.
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